BARAKA BASHMENT

SHARI’A: Commonly translated as “law,” however, here experienced as SUCHNESS since we recognize law to be man-made. Shari’a is therefor the suchness of existence preceeding, following, and enveloping human involvement. There is no law other than being and occurrence. Things are and be. “Man”-made law is a simulation of suchness. It is corruption and the ultimate expression of a failed society.


TARIQA: Commonly translated as “path,” but here understood to be LIFE as every microcosmic expression of the life-living-dying etc is part and parcel of the path itself. The fulfillment of tariqa occurs both self-aware and ignorant since all beings “go” willingly or unwillingly.


HAQIQA: Usually translated as “Truth,” however here translated as THE MERGING OF DIRECT AND PRE-SOCIALIZED EXPERIENCE WITH “IT” IN A SIMULTANEOUS IMPLODING OF BOTH SHARI’A AND TARIQA WITH OR WITHOUT HUMAN PARTICIPATION. It is Chogyam Trungpa’s “blue pancake” and the clap of the zen wood block. It simply is and your Kali-severed head.

Some of these next few are repeats but updated as I am putting together a manuscript. A number are brand spankin’ newbie.

Do you not see that all creatures
in the sky and on earth glorify God—
even the bird on a wing?
Each one knows its prayer and manner of praise.
Qur’an 24:41

The outline of the human figure is often hard to perceive. The farther one stands the more blurred our once pristine reference becomes as it merges into innumerable Others. And yet, approaching the Other gives us a similar lack of outline. The closer we investigate—the deeper we dig—the human skin once again loses interest in its definition and dissolves into a deviant migration from one atom to the next. Tendon yields to wormhole yields to the unnamed. The human being! The assumed form of context and experimentation.

However, the irreducible rarely remains as such. Always a work in process, this culmination of interest, ecology, language, salt water, and breath constantly defines and is instantaneously defined. The senses relay to the totality a category of responses. Upon utterance the deliberately almost-constitution—now a human-thing—walks with a (not always) invisible burden. This human-thing, no longer a work in process, is idolized and immersed in the corporate plasma of social admen. The continuous unfolding becomes frozen in time.

Do they seek something other than the religion of God,
to Whom all in the heavens and on earth
have submitted, willingly or unwillingly,
and to Whom they will be returned?
Qur’an 3:83

If God is (not just) the uncontainable totality of is-ness, and Islam is a peaceful surrender to the already immersed nature of the human being into this is-ness, and to be muslim (not necessarily a Muslim) is to be a person who willingly or unwillingly submits to these conditions, how than and to what does the plasma stick?

Rock. Tar sticks easily to rock. Feathers stick easily to tar. On the road to Mecca there is rock, tar, possibly feathers, and a number of road signs. One sign in particular dictates that all Muslims may stay the coarse while all non-Muslims must exit to the right. The questions one must ask are: does this sign describe anything real—anything possible? Who in the desert must really veer to the right? If a person exits to the right, does the road continue to turn right until it places the human-thing where it previously veered? Does the exit from the road to Mecca even exist? Can a person really veer in any direction? Are we not all willingly or unwillingly enveloped by the perpetual manifestations of Truth?

The world as experience exists as an infinite number of potentials. In the constructed social realm (how social this realm truly is has yet to be seen) people do in fact turn right—people whose identity does not coincide with the dominant identity construct. All non-Muslims must exit, which ironically enough includes muslims who do not bare the title Muslim™. At its best, radical monotheisms consider all beings partial to the same divine motivation, thus challenging egocentric sectarianism and categories beginning with “non.” Radical monotheism recognizes a common breath that manifests in as many ways as there are people to in fact breathe. To restrict this breath is to provide only a straw through which to suckle air, over time converting raw brainpower into a lethargic brain damage.

However, this strangling of the process-human is by no means limited to religious affiliation. The human-thing is a perpetual manifestation of the linear narrative that careens through the mind upon noticing an Other of notable interest. Atheism may strangle. Pantheism may strangle. Communism may strangle. Monotheism may strangle. Anarchism may strangle. Post-postmodernism may strangle. The common thread is the common narrative where ideological borders solidify and condemn those outside the gates to subjugation. This narrative typically plays out as such: Two people are walking towards one another at which point the mind begins to construct a flawless personal identity that in turn maintains an Other’s flawless personal identity. Here is a person doing the “business thing.” S/he is an asshole. I probably wouldn’t be able to talk to him/her about anything. They are against all that I believe and therefore is an enemy and needs to be avoided. At best I will ignore this person.

One way to even begin to recognize a subversion of this common scenario is to possibly follow this person (to whatever degree this objectifies her/him and makes him/her a goal I am not sure) and proceed to engage her/him in the most lengthy conversation possible-making sure to ask many questions. With a sense of humility the conversation may yield a transcommodified experience—one in which the minute orchestra of cellular activity is (sub)consciously appreciated. Mind you, this is not a goal. And this is certainly not an attempt to have us “get along.” Rather it is a simple practice of moving away from engaging with the representation of the Other (via film, TV, newspaper, etc.) towards engaging the Other directly, taking notice of the subtle body language. Smelling the breath. Hearing the voice among other voices. Remarking about someone’s cough. I don’t expect us to like this so-called Other, however, I expect us to recognize its humanity. It’s a very preliminary and small step with possible radical implications.

The questions still remain, however. Is talking to a stranger revolutionary? Will it lead to a global or even local dialogue? Are we using strangers for our own therapy? Have we merely fashioned them into golden calves? Is the exit from the road to Mecca an expression of samsara, a blessing, both, or neither? Maybe we should first get in touch with our loved ones. Have we listened what they have to say? Have we asked? And when they answered have we heard?

Maybe I did not throw the ball.

Though I am sure I saw it leave my hand.

Maybe I did not throw the bull.

• FREE: a state of being comprised of always already potential and possibility; to let go; able to act at will; not hampered; not under compulsion or restraint; to relieve from
• ORDER: a formal association of people with similar interests; a system or organization; a command or decree
• INTENTIONAL: deliberate; by conscious design or purpose; done by design
• LIVING: the activity of engaging, maintaining, and manifesting life; still in active use
• FOIL: thwart; hinder or prevent (the efforts, plans, or desires) of an oppressive manipulative force; anything that serves by contrast to call attention to an other thing’s qualities

Today, the first sound of the Free Order of Intentional Living is “AH.” The last sound of the Free Order of Intional Living is “HU.” Tomorrow, we are not sure. As beginning and end are aspects of blessed, though limited, human consciousness, this is not entirely true or Truth. It is a potential piece of the Great Uncontainable Consciousness and therefore useful. Every aspect of life is useful. Every action and reaction, every crossroads and decision is use-worthy in realizing the pre- and manifest divine un- and reality. In this there is a value.

The limited concepts of beginning and end are also useless, in that there are opportunities to use less. In this there is a value.

• “USEFUL” ACCORDING TO THE FOIL: Engagement through appreciation and with future consideration. The perpetual seven generations of native peoples. Learning. Mutual assistance.
• “USEFUL” ACCORDING TO BABYLON: The raping and life-excavating pillage of an objectified Earth, matter, being, and cosmos.

KILL YR IDOLS

1. The idol is the thing, manufactured or otherwise, that stands in place of its sign/ificance, its “nature,” its is-ness, its nothing special-ness, its in and of its self-ness, as well as its context and history. As such, the idol is the medium of separation. It is the brick wall. It is the frozen definition.
2. Contrary to what many believe, an idol’s idolness can not be fully known by anyone other than the idolater his/herself. As such, a person can not be accused of idolatry with complete and total certainty. This is because idolarty occurs wholly inside a person’s mind, and as one can never truly know another’s thoughts, one must concede to the knowledge of the collected being AKA God.
3. For instance, hoola-hoops are not idols in and of themselves, however, a person could certainly make a hoola-hoop an idol if the hoola-hoop itself was the sole divinity rather than a piece. That is, the physicality of the hoola-hoop, was the beginning and the end of total consciousness. The same goes for a statue. Even though it is fashioned by humans, the statue does not necessarily become an idol simply by the nature of its creation. The same must also be said about Hindu iconography. Simply because a person may sing in front of, meditate or pray before a conception does not an idol make. We are not necessarily in the presence of idol worship.
4. Idol worship is discouraged, because it is understood that the realization of Allah is without end. It is essentially endless. So that anything that makes finite the experience of Truth is considered a hindrance. As, according to the Qur’an and hadith, God necessitates God-consciousness in order to be known, there is a great emphasis placed on removing this hindrance from a person’s spiritual path.
5. It seems . . .

In an effort to make room, step aside, for a truly authentic relationship with the divine impossibility of uncontainable totality made possible, I have begun recording my voice on tape as I freely describe my body in an environment.

For instance, if I am sitting I try to describe as many details as I can about the experience. How my hand looks as I stretch it out in front of me etc. The tradition of Islam comes in Arabic. I’m not going to learn Arabic (even though I began) and don’t want to forever feel like I’m missing something if I don’t. So enough of that. At least the attachment to it being “my path.” Since I came to Islam with the understanding that it was first and formost not a religion, but an impulse (a pulse) I guess I’m stepping back from it (the religion) with the same understanding.

So, I’m starting at zero.

Zero is the eyes. Zero is taste. Zero is noticing an arm outstretched.

I don’t “believe” in God. Never really did. But I embrace the unseen and all its possibility. The unseen has yet to be codified. It is (temporarily?) a no-space with a no-dogma.

My language in all its quirks will simply have to do. God-ness supposedly comes to each in their own language “so that you might understand.” I buy that, but let’s just see about that.

The semi-autonomous and deliberate re-interpretation of the world is always already.

What the Free Order of Intentional Living will facilitate I am not sure.

Let’s see if we can’t stretch this language of ours to the point of snapping. The conceptualization of God will find no safe haven. We’re coming for ya! All entities are suspect. The non-entity of Fakhruddin ‘Iraqi will guide us into a cool summer ditch. Take shade little book binder. Say “ah.”

Happy Birthday.

1.
Today the Sun. Tomorrow Fear.

2.
Today the sun rests on a ledge and is crushed by the hovering shock of this is not it.
Today the sun pales.
Today the sun makes its way slowly across the covering.
Today the sun answers not one call, but a series of speechless beckons from the formless.
The formless already a name.
The formless already a vision.
The formless already a constant separation.
The formless already a member of its family.
Its family the destruction of crumbling.
Its family the removal of obstacles.
Its family the extension of the human fingertip.
Its family the open skull.

This mouth a cave.
This mouth a condition to be vehicles.
This mouth a monster’s half-child.

The push to sever. The approach to split space by a hand hung from arm chest neck hung from head hung from a skeleton’s forgotten sky. The air a fossil. The air a formula to build again a sky forgotten. The air a fermentation banned. A concotion.

Crude.

Crushing.

Crucible.

A light hung from the mixture of bone-human, screen-human, scream-human, describe-human, notated-human. Another other.

3.
When the God combusts to free God, the God envelopes itself as a white dwarf envelopes the cosmos along with a child’s fascination. The enveloped fascination traps itself in itself, having finally completed the total identification with the replica. The replica replaces the original. The original replaces the unnamed. The unnamed hiccup when noticing the protégé having itself forgotten the Archangel of death spanning the cosmos and covered in eyes wide. Death follows Life. Life precedes Death. Life the Living. Death the destruction of Life’s form. Death protects Life from life. Life protects Death from form. Form protects the mundane from the sacred veiled by the rotting flag of carcass and allegiance. Institution is mechanical rot.

4.
What than of the glance?
What than of the breath against breath?
What than of the rebellion of bodies against slavery?

The skin excuses itself from the muscle and tendon of partnered body-sex to destroy the oppression coming from the lens of a most cumbersome and spying rotunda encapsulating the culture of the Free Order of Intentional Living. The Great Excuse. The Clarifier. The Song Sung Singing. The Clapping. The Crushing Love. The Automaton of Freedom. The Appreciation of the Boundless Question. The Beautiful That Loves Beauty. The Natural. That Which Exposes. That Which Mothers Co-Existence. That Which Helps. The Humble Path. That Which Helps the Humble Path. Yes/ &/ But/ Is/ Not. YA BISN!

5.
A foil is both a noun and a verb. It is that which by the nature of it’s own character exposes the character of another. It is itself and the means by which itself. It is the various means by which one usurps the hegemonic power of another. Itself is its nature—a continually (re/de)created culture of pro-conversation and good intentions. The foil is the intention is not the foil but always already awareness.

It is the laughing rebellion. It is the appreciation of diversity. It is the acceptance of difference and the attack on tolerance. Tolerance necessitates a source of power that is in a position to tolerate (AKA ignore for a period of time) an Other. The foil is the disruption of this saving face nice-ism. It is the shade in summer.

It is an attempt to deliberately engage the Spectacle. It is an attempt to make room for the perpetual conversation (AKA God-consciousness manifest) of the great collective—LIFE!

Closure exists internally and externally. Both stations are manifestations of human agency. Closure is not static. Externally it floats above subjects and rests where the human-mind atrophies. Closure hovers over subjects, perceptions, like a saucer eventually mating with the atrophied consciousness. The human stands on the ground posturing like a metal rod. The closure pauses. There is a feedback loop maintained by the static of the human and that of closure. This feedback devops into a pillar. A solid structure. There is an impasse. In order to make sense of the structure it is given a name, an identity. Whether it is the simulation of Truth, or the idol of homogenaic-orthopraxis, this pillar grows like teeth and bone—from the inside it feeds off closure. It expands outward. Where it once grew, it becomes a growth. A tumor.

If the tumor is really a knot it can be massaged (out) and with clear/clean attention/intention it may soften and become more receptive to touch. It becomes sensitive to subtle stimuli.

If the tumor is a tumor it may be extracted. In worse case scenarios an exorcism may be necessary. Here, the greatest of all idols manifests as “reality” and preceeds love, God consciousness, to such a degree as to be animated in the human through body, mind, speech, and gesture. Hatred is fear. Fear is Iblis. Iblis is closure. Closure is atrophy. Atrophy is rigamortus. Rigamortus is death. The human becomes wood. Wood is a multipurpose material. One can build. One can burn. One can burn to build. One can build to burn.

If there ever was a soft body
as it is thinking itself into being
represented back to itself a body . . .

If not a body than what?

What than if not a body?

A Negative Depth Experience (-NGE) of any magnitude requires a dictionary. A dictionary requires a reader. A reader requires a breath. A breath requires a wind. A wind requires a rotation. A rotation requires a cosmic push. A cosmic push requires a transcosmic impulse. A transcosmic impulse requires an imperceivable requirement—a post measurement—a yes/ and/ but/ is/ not—YA BISN!

From the top!

rahima — to have mercy; to have compassion; to spare or let off

Rahima assumes a relationship. One cannot show compassion without a “for”—a some (thing) to show compassion to. Rahima necessitates intimacy.

rahim, rihm f., pl. arham — uterus; womb; relationship; kinship

An intimacy in utero. A relationship within the womb—not gender specific, but basic—the non-singularity, the non-static perpetual possibility and negotiation.

rahma — pity or compassion; human understanding; sympathy; kindness; mercy

Rahma assumes a relationship. One cannot show compassion without a “for”—a some (thing) to show compassion to. Rahma necessitates intimacy. Understanding requires a subject or one that is subject to another. A subject maintains a heirarchy only before “I was a hidden treasure and wanted to be known” at which point the subject enacts the reader. The reader enacts the subject.

1.
Follow a bird’s course.

2.
You can not.

3.
What a pleasure.

The beauty in magic is not in the witnessing of someone who *can* but witnessing how someone who cannot, does!

A change in one’s language is the beginning of the change in one’s being. In a way, the language of a person both dictates and maintains the boundaries within which a person or people can move and thus willfully express themselves. You can only express what you can in fact express. Laws work in a similar fashion. They maintain the preordained limits of a society. Laws are the language by which people act.

Since my wife is an ultra-proud South African, and since I love South Africa, I thought I might present a little of what makes South Africans so proud. Here is a slice “of what could be” taken from the South African Constitution via the Bill of Rights.

For the full South African Constitution text please go here.

South African Bill of Rights: 9. Equality section 3
“The state may not unfairly discriminate directly or indirectly against anyone on one or more grounds, including race, gender, sex, pregnancy, marital status, ethnic or social origin, colour, sexual orientation, age, disability, religion, conscience, belief, culture, language and birth.”

Let us think regarding our own use of language: Is it really acceptable for us US citizens to be championing “All MEN are created equal,” if we are expected to clarify that statement every time with: And by that we really mean all people because you see back in the day people used to use the term “men” as a universal for “people,” well not everyone used that term, there have always been women who disagreed with its usage, so in a way the usage of “men” was an act of marginalizing alternative voices in a culture, but nonetheless what we mean by “All MEN are created equal” is that all people, except for the fact that Africans weren’t considered “people” which was a sign of the times, although again, as in the “all MEN” issue, there have always been people in opposition to the idea that Africans were not people, so once again we have a situation where a deliberate selection of opinion was codified, but today we should of course understand “All MEN are created equal” as “All people regardless of race, gender, etc… are created equal” even though you and l know it doesn’t say that. But you know, when it’s the foundation upon which the US bases every legal action, who needs such clarity. We all know what “the founding fathers” really meant. Unfortunately that’s part of the the problem.

Thanks for setting the bar so high South Africa. The consciousness of our national being is pegged to the language of our national documents. Is it time for a little editing? Take a look at some of our (US) debates regarding the Bill of Rights and the Constitution etc… Nothing is sacred. Every aspect of our legal tradition was and can be contested. May we keep that struggle alive in the face of ALL legal traditions.